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["William Fulmer" <WFulmer AT northampton.edu>]

Works!  Thanks very much.

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Will Fulmer
Database Administrator
Northampton Community College
Bethlehem, PA
610-861-5569


>>> jklowden AT freetds.org 4/26/2006 9:33 PM >>>
William Fulmer wrote:
> I'm using perl DBD::Sybase. I used the directions in the User
> documantation so whatever API that defaults to...
> I'm querying a MSSql 2000 database.  

Quoth Michael Peppler on April 6, 2006:

> Try setting $dbh->{syb_binary_images} = 1 and rerun the query.

Please try that and let us know.  

HTH.

--jkl
(japh)


> The code:
> #!/opt/local/bin/perl
> use strict;
> use DBI;
> use DBD::Sybase;
> 
> my $dbh = DBI->connect("dbi:Sybase:host=onecard;port=1433", 'user',
> 'password', {PrintError => 0}) or
>         die "Unable for connect to server $DBI::errstr\n";
> $dbh->do('use badgeimages') or die "Could not select database: " .
> $dbh->errstr . "\n";
> $dbh->do('set textsize 1000000') or die "Could not select database: "
.
> $dbh->errstr . "\n";
> my $sth = $dbh->prepare('select pt_cardholder_id,pt_image from
> portrait') or die $dbh->errstr . "\n";
> $sth->execute() or die $sth->errstr . "\n";
> while (my @pic = $sth->fetchrow_array()) {
>   open OUTFILE,">",$pic[0] . ".jpg";
>   print OUTFILE $pic[1];
>   close OUTFILE;
>   die;
> }
> 
> 
> ---
> Will Fulmer
> Database Administrator
> Northampton Community College
> Bethlehem, PA
> 610-861-5569
> 
> 
> >>> jklowden AT freetds.org 4/26/2006 8:23 PM >>>
> William Fulmer wrote:
> > My
> > problem is that the image fields I'm trying to retrieve are coming
> out
> > in hex rather than binary.  What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Likely you're asking for them as character data, whether or not you
> mean
> to.  
> 
> What language and API are you using?  
> 
> --jkl
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